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Overview: Infant developmental theory revolves around the concept of a ‘good enough’ mother (1) who provides contingent care and reassurance to her newborn child, allowing the infant to resolve the initial Eriksonian conflict of trust vs. mistrust and empower the infant to better tolerate anxiety and distress. Psychoanalysts have formulated that pregnancy itself prepares the mother to enter this caretaker role through, in the final weeks of pregnancy, ‘maternal reverie’ – a state of increased focus on the child in utero, which guides the mother to identify with the baby’s shifting affective states (2). But are there any physiologic changes in the brain that support this concept?